SMU in the News

Following are highlights of stories about SMU or stories that relied on the expertise of SMU faculty and others. The links are not maintained by SMU but were working when they posted here.

News

CBC

• James Hopkins, Dedman Emeritus, book A Woman To Deliver Her People among the list of tomes that influenced filmmaker Stephanie Morgenstern
• Brad Klein, Embrey Human Rights, truck driver faces charges after deadly human smuggling case in San Antonio

Christian Science Monitor

• Cal Jillson, Dedman, split with Sessions may pit Trump agenda against Trump himself
• Cal Jillson, Dedman, political calculus behind Trump’s transgender ban

Dallas Business Journal

• Michael Davis, Cox, foreign trade zones key to North Texas economy
• David Lei, Cox, steel import tariffs: level playing field or trade war

Dallas Innovates

• Thomas Coan, Dedman, new particle detector in South Dakota could increase understanding of neutrinos

Dallas Morning News

• Jean Kazez, Dedman, commentary, Texas’ Senate Bill 3 – aka bathroom bill – makes no sense at any level

Inside Philanthropy

• SMU mentioned in a story about billionaire Charles Butt’s support for K-12 education

KRLD

• Matthew Myers, Cox, spotlight on new dean
• Mike Davis, Cox, says Wisconsin's winning bid to be home to Foxconn's US plant may have come at a cost that wouldn't have been worth it to Texas. (Also ran on KLBJ-AM; links not available)

Live Science

• Lewis Jacobs, Dedman, newfound dinosaur named for Jacobs, who mentored three of the researchers
• and here

Los Angeles Times

• Dale Carpenter, Dedman Law, bathroom bill debate indicative of widening gap between liberal cities and the conservative state 

MetroMBA

• Cox, FastTrack MBA profiled

National Observer

• James Coleman, Dedman Law, Canadian Trans Mountain pipeline permits won’t be delayed

New York Times

• Jeffrey Engel, Dedman, Trump tries to regroup, West Wing battles itself

PBS

• Mark Chancey, Dedman, cited in a story about Hobby Lobby owners and their Bible Museum

Swimming World Magazine

• Anna Heller joins SMU coaching staff

Technology Networks

• Thomas Ritz, Dedman, better diagnosis of stress could come from new protein discovery

Students

• SMU student Wendy Birdsall fears her rapist stalked Dallas for a decade

Alums

• SMU alums Junchang Lü, Yuong-Nam Lee and Yoshitsugu Kobayashi publish about a new dinosaur species, name it after Professor Lewis Jacobs

• SMU alumna Emily Bernet co-launches the Bombshell Dance Project
• and here

• SMU alumna Julie Lawson Timmer publishes new novel Mrs. Saint and the Defectives

• SMU alumnus/Ph.D. student Ed Gray calls on Dallas to remove its Confederate symbols

• SMU alumna/choreographer Lydia Hance takes modern dance beyond the stage

• SMU alumna Mary Catherine Burke now leads the Cape Fear Regional Theatre

Compiled by Cherri Gann ’15
Coordinator, SMU News & Communications | Office of Public Affairs
214-768-7657 | cgann@smu.edu
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